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, India, whose corporate governance system is a hybrid of the ousider-dominated-market-based systems of the UK and the US and …
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This paper presents two approaches that use publicly available data to estimate the loss to investors from mis-selling of insurance products. The first approach uses the number of lapsed policies from the annual reports of the insurance regulator, IRDA, while the second method uses the...
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firms in India. This paper empirically investigates the determinants of trade credit in the Indian context. The empirical …
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In 2003, trading of commodity futures shifted from single commodity, regional exchanges to national exchanges that trade multiple commodities. This paper examines price discovery and hedging effectiveness of commodity futures after this change and concludes that,on average, futures prices do...
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We analyze the role of debt in corporate governance with respect to a large emerging economy, India, where debt has …-section of listed manufacturing firms in India for three years, 1996, 2000, and 2003. Our analyses indicate that while in the …
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Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher participation of women in the programme. Official data suggest that 47 of all MGNREGA workers are...
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rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …
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Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive (new trading … a comparative study of exports from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the … narrower as India is clearly catching up with China. By contrast, India lags significantly behind China in terms of intensive …
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This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments under the WTO Agreement … NFSA and that it is possible to leverage existing provisions in the WTO AoA to accommodate these within India's commitments … under the WTO AoA. While India should negotiate to retain the flexibility afforded in the Agreement and argue on specific …
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